When I first got the job at TRC it was a huge shift for me to be at a job early in the morning, or stick to the job all day. For the first two years I would go on break at lunch, even the days I brought lunch, to drive around the neighborhood near work and get some time away from the office.
The neighborhood around where TRC was located at this time was very very nice. All million dollar houses, some with views of the greenbelt that beat anything I have seen before in Austin.
Mostly though the neighborhood was quiet. I could part somewhere and chill and no one would mess with me as I read my phone or as I listened to local sports radio.
In these sessions are when I would find myself, when I would regroup as a person before finishing off each day. Early on when I was on the support team or a junior sales associate I simply wasn't important enough to need to be locked in all the time, and so I would relish the chance to get away and look at one of those amazing views.
Sometime around 2015 this habit stopped for three reasons:
1. Sales fell off some in 2015 so I needed to commit myself more.
2. After Neil left I started coming into work later and therefore didn't have an hour in the middle of the day to waste anymore. Instead over time I put that hour on the front of my day.
3. My friend Jared had left and only Jared knew where I went or why I went. Without him there I felt like a weirdo taking this selfish time.
Every now and then I still take some time to ramble through these neighborhoods, if nothing else to remind myself of a time in life that is past. I expect after the baby is born I will do it even more so as it will be a reminder of my life before kids, the life before such big responsibilities.
I will ramble through cat mountain remembering those early days when I was trying to find my place in the professional world and in Austin. I will remember the time spent trying to decompress and focus on whatever my obsession was at the moment, a time just for me. I will remember the place with the best view.
The neighborhood around where TRC was located at this time was very very nice. All million dollar houses, some with views of the greenbelt that beat anything I have seen before in Austin.
Mostly though the neighborhood was quiet. I could part somewhere and chill and no one would mess with me as I read my phone or as I listened to local sports radio.
In these sessions are when I would find myself, when I would regroup as a person before finishing off each day. Early on when I was on the support team or a junior sales associate I simply wasn't important enough to need to be locked in all the time, and so I would relish the chance to get away and look at one of those amazing views.
Sometime around 2015 this habit stopped for three reasons:
1. Sales fell off some in 2015 so I needed to commit myself more.
2. After Neil left I started coming into work later and therefore didn't have an hour in the middle of the day to waste anymore. Instead over time I put that hour on the front of my day.
3. My friend Jared had left and only Jared knew where I went or why I went. Without him there I felt like a weirdo taking this selfish time.
Every now and then I still take some time to ramble through these neighborhoods, if nothing else to remind myself of a time in life that is past. I expect after the baby is born I will do it even more so as it will be a reminder of my life before kids, the life before such big responsibilities.
I will ramble through cat mountain remembering those early days when I was trying to find my place in the professional world and in Austin. I will remember the time spent trying to decompress and focus on whatever my obsession was at the moment, a time just for me. I will remember the place with the best view.
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